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ANCIENT POEMS,
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Galic antiquities
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Description	Consisting of a history of the Druids particularly of those of Caledonia a dissertation on the authenticity of the poems of Ossian and a collection of ancient poems translated from the Galic of Ullin, Ossian, Orran &c.
Shelfmark	Blair.64
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	National Library of Scotland

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1780 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Celtic (culture) Forgeries (derivative objects) Poetry Criticism Histories (literature genre)
Person / organisation:	Smith, John, 1747-1807 [Author] Elliot, Charles, -1790 [Publisher] MacFarquhar, Colin, approximately 1745-1793 [Printer] Elliot, Charles, -1790 [Printer] Druids and Druidism [Subject of text]
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